The Friday before a long weekend is always an exciting one. This Friday we continued to review ways of persuading readers in argumentative writing as well as identifying the subject and predicate in a sentence.
The students watched a video of a young man being sentenced. This served to create background knowledge before the students wrote their third BCR (Brief Constructed Response) answering the question:
- Should juveniles be punished separately or as adults after committing a serious crime?
The TAPP strategy was introduced to help everyone best respond to the topic.
- T=topic
- What are you being asked to comment on?
- A=audience
- Who is supposed to read your response?
- P=purpose
- Why are you writing your response?
- P=pattern (organization)
- How should you structure (organize) your response?
- Cause and Effect, Argumentative (persuasion), Problem and solution, etc.
- How should you structure (organize) your response?
HOMEWORK: Write a BCR persuading me to listen to your favorite song.
PowerPoint:TAPP & BCR #3 8/31/12
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